Chapter 70 – Party Trick (1/2)

Loran Academy

Practice Range

In the past few days, when Lin Xiao was in the library, he didn’t only read history books. In order to prepare for the upcoming tournament, he needs to improve his ability, and learn more powerful spells as soon as possible. —— Although his current strength was already frightening, by relying on the talent of increasing magic through sleep, his magic level has reached fifth-level. He will probably break through the sixth-level after sleeping for a few more days.

A magician who is about to break through the sixth-level at only 15 years old. —— If the principals of other academies find out about Lin Xiao’s strength, I am afraid they will find a way to bring Lin Xiao to their school at all costs.

However, Lin Xiao cannot be conceited.

Even if he has the strength to win the next “Academy Tournament”, he doesn’t want to do that —— he doesn’t want to blow everyone away with his firepower, it’s not his style, it also conflicts with his ideals of lazing around until death.

What he has to do is to hide in the dark, support Caesar, let the boy stay in the limelight, let him be a hero. As for Lin Xiao himself, just quietly work towards the goal of being a reserve hero.

Lazing around until death —— in order to achieve this goal, he needs more power!

Uh… it looks like there is a contradiction? But, it’s not contradictory.

“Are you going to try new spells?” Elena, who was standing next to Lin Xiao, asked curiously.

“Of course, we seldomly have the opportunity to use the practice range. I have to test my limits!” Lin Xiao eagerly stood on the empty practice range.

“Limit?” Elena grinned, but couldn’t work up her interests.

She has already been numbed to Lin Xiao’s talents. Now, even if Lin Xiao threw out a ninth grade curse-level magic right in front of her face, she will not be surprised.

“Elena, help me be on the lookout, although there’s currently no one at Loran Academy, if anyone comes in and sees me creating explosions, it would be troublesome.” Lin Xiao said.

Because he needs to practice newly learned techniques, even Lin Xiao must concentrate all his attention on the task. At that time, he may not be able to respond to small movements in his surroundings. If someone took that opportunity to steal a glance, there will be trouble!

“Tsk, obviously strong, but you have to pretend to be weak… How much of a waste is your life?” Elena cursed.

“Hey, no need for cynical remarks. If it wasn’t for the demons fighting against the humans, there would be no wars, and I wouldn’t have to worry about being cannon fodder!”

“Hey… how many of our members have the people of the Holy Light Church killed? You’re blaming me?”

“Cough… okay, okay, be a good maid, let’s not quarrel, help me see if there are any people around!”

“…” Lin Xiao changed the topic, he did not wait for Elena to actually get angry. She felt that she was punching air, even if she wanted to dispute, she already lost interest. She closed her eyes to use her perception to help Lin Xiao find “peepers”.

Humanoid self-propelled magic detection radar, activate!

“No one around.”

She gave the verdict.

“Good!”

After getting the answer he wanted, Lin Xiao was full of enthusiasm. He rolled up his sleeves and prepared to start his performance.

There are many sections in the practice range. There were shooting targets for archers, wooden puppets for soldiers, and Lin Xiao was in the section with magic target for magicians.

It’s very similar to the shooting ranges on Earth. The practitioner stands on the far side, and a large stone stands ten or more meters away for the practitioner to bombard with magic —— The target’s material is a rare ore called “refined magic ore”. This ore has many uses, one of which is to absorb magic power.

If magic power is absorbed, then the power of spells is naturally greatly reduced. Therefore, the target made from refined magic ore is extremely difficult to be destroyed by magic, at least, the students of Loran Academy can’t do it.

Originally, when Lin Xiao said that he had to test his own limits. Elena thought that he wanted to use his strongest attack to destroy the refined magic ore. “Seventh Grade Magic” + “Double Chant” is Lin Xiao’s strongest attack. Although he has never used it before, he may be able to blow up this damn stone.

However, Lin Xiao would not do something that stupid. His reason is —— “I still want to live a few more years, I don’t want to be killed by Woos, and use my own life to compensate for the broken stone.”

“Considering my current magic level and that there are a lot of spells to try, so I will start with the simplest magic.” Lin Xiao summoned a fist-sized purple ball of light in his hand.

“Magic Missile!”

Magic chant, complete.

At this moment, Elena’s voice slowly drifted over.

“Lin Xiao, are you sure this is magic, not a party trick?”

The lowest level magic, Magic Missile —— in terms of destructive power, this delicate “Glass Bead” can probably only kill a mouse, but in terms of beauty, magic missiles are first class!

“Party trick? Have you seen such a beautiful party trick? Really…” It was only for the sake of conserving magic that I chose the first grade spell “Magic Missile”, but I was ridiculed by Elena. Lin Xiao felt very uncomfortable and angry. “Elena, why aren’t you calling me master?”

“Because I feel embarrassed… my master can only use magic missiles?”

“Oh… it seems like recently your satire skills have been improving! But this time I’m not going to argue, judge Elena, you are the demon king, you should give me some pointers on how to release magic.”

Elena did not respond, but only gave a snort in response.

Lin Xiao understood —— it was a positive answer, Elena was willing to guide him.